Garment-stay.



C. L. BLAIR- GARMENT STAY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22, 1915.

1, 179,]. 56. Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

s PATENT OFFICE.

CfiifiNELIA L. BLAIR, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

GARMENT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 22, 191 5. Serial No. 35,601.

To allwiwm z'tmoy concern:

' Be it Known that I, COBNELIA L. BLAIR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in'the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Stays; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable Others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. a

. It has been the common practice in the art of corset manufacturing to employ various ally of stitching and in some instances, the stay,

rounding means of anchorage for the stifl'ening stays of the garment, consisting chiefly and usuabout the edges of the stays, through apertures in and it haseven been proposed to provide retaining pins and tabs for holding the stay in place, but, notwithstanding these endeavors, the use of corsets from the fact that the terminal portions of the stays persist in WOIking loose and breaking through the surfabric either laterally orlongitudinally, incident to the continued flexing to which the stay is subjected, which results both in the impartation of lateral vibratory movements to the terminals of the stay, and a creeping or longitudinal movement to the entire stay. The result is that great difliculty has been experienced in endeavors to painfully injurethe mary object of this invention,

vibratory movement of the terminal prevent thestays from working through the cloth and protruding at either one or both ends of the garment, where they frequently flesh of the wearer.

To overcome these difiiculties, is the priand to this a means of independent portions of the stay with respect to the surend, the invention comprises anchorage intended to obviate rounding fabric and to, at the same time,

prevent longitudinal creeping of the stay.

More in detail, the invention comprises spring clips fixed to a stay and located to enga e adjacent fportions of fabric and there y cause the abric and stay to be held against relative independent movement.

The invention comprises certain other novel constructions, combinations. and arrangements of parts as specified and claimed. I

In the accompanying drawingfFigure 1 is a View in side elevation of a stay embodying the features of the present invention.

will hereinafter be distressing difliculties arise in is rendered free either by Fig. 2 isan edge view tlr'ereof, parts being Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

seen in vertical section. Fig. 3 1S a perspective view of a fragment of the stay seen in its applied condition relative to the fabric of a corset. Fig. 4 1s a greatly enlarged detail Y perspective view of a clip detached.

.Referring to the drawing bynumerals, 1

indicates a stay, which may be ofany. of. the. t

well known forms. To the end portions of stay 1 are fixed spring clips 2, each-of which clips is a duplicate of all the others, and one clip will, therefore, be described in detail and the description The clip consists of an eye 2', having a spring tongue bent at 2" to form an eyelet receiving loop portion and extending at 2* beyond the loop 2 in the form of a flat straight portion adapted to lie flatagainst the face of the stay 1. The loop portion 2" not only serves to receive an eyelet in use, as

will hereinafter appear, but also serves to insure the retention of the flat extended ortion .2 in intimate contact with the sur-.

.formed in the stay and eyelet at the respective ends of the rivet.

The main fabric of the corset is indicated, in Fig. 3, at 4, overlaid by an'outer piece of fabric or stay casing 5. The stayl may is applicable to all.-

is not given any tendency to to g be disposed in a longitudinal casing on the corset in the usual manner or otherwise arranged withrespect to fabric 4 as preferred, but whatever the arrangement may be,'the fabric 5 is causedto be engaged by the several clips 2 after the manner indicated in Fig. 3. The said fabric 5 is provided with eyelets 6, 6, preferably of elongated form and of a size to snugly receive the respective spring is rounded about its edges so as to produce no rough orcutting edges and may be enameled like the clip. The eyelets 6 at each clip. Each eyelet 6 end portion. of the stay 1 are spaced apart a distance equal as nearly exactly as possible to the distance apart of theshoulders of loops 2 nearer the eyelets 2, so that when the fabric 5 is being positioned with respect to clips 2, it must be crimped or gathered longitudinally until the eyelets 6 can be passed over the free ends of the clips 2 and then the fabric 5 is straightened out so that the eyelets c assume the final position indicated in Fig. 3 in firm engagement with the shoulders of the loops 2". Thereupon, the fabric 5 is stitched to the corset fab ric 4, as at 7, forming lines of stitching extending along the edges of the stay 1. The casing 5 may also be stitched across the ends as at 7, this stitching being sufiiciently spaced from the ends of the stay to allow of a reasonable amount of play of the terminals of the stay. The parts having thus been caused to assume the position seen in Fig. 3. the clips 2 rest firmly againstthe outer-face of the fabric 5 and press it against the stay, and positively retain the stay from excessive independent vi ratory mo ement, and from any longitudinal creeping in either direction. The ends of the stay are free to have such lateral play as necessary incident to flexing of intermediate portions of the stay in use.

The rivets for clips 2 and the material of stay l-will be proportioned to have the requisite dimensions to insure against loosening of the rivets.

What I claim is: p

1. The combination, with a garment stay, of a. clip fixed at one end to the stay and havinga spring tongue extending along the 'stay and fiat against the same for a portion of its length, a portion of the tonguebeing looped outward from the stay. the tongue being flat throughout its length except for the loop.

2. The combinat on. with a garment stay,

of a clip fixed at one end to the stay and having a fiat spring tongue extending along the stav and flat against the same for a portion of its length. that portion of the tongue adjacent the fixed end of the clip being formed into an outstanding loop.

3. The combination, with a garment stay, of a clip fixed at one end to the stay and having a fiat spring tongue extending along the stay and 'flat against the same for a portion of its length, that portion of the tongue adjacent the fixed end of the clip being formed into an outstanding loop, the

clip being formed with rounded edges so as to present no sharp or cutting edges to contiguous fabric.

4c. The combination, with a garment stay, of a spring clip, and a rivet extending through the stay and clip and fixing the clip to the stay, the staybeingformed with a free ing a spring tongue extending alongthe stay toward the other clip, a portion of each of. the tongues being adapted-to lie flat against the face of the stay or the engaged face of fabric interposed between the .stay and the tongue.

6. The combination, with a garment stay,

of aspring clip fixed to the stay adjacent its upper end portion and extending longi-v tudinally of the stay downwardly, and a similar clip spaced downwardly from the,

first clip and fixed to the stay and extending upwardly along the stay, each clip comprising a tongue disposed to lie flat against the stay or against the engaged surface ofv fabric interposed between the stay and clip,

an intermediate portion of the tongue .of each clip being formed into an eyelet re- ,eeiving loop.

7 The combination. with a garment stay, of a spring clip fixed to thestay adjacent its upper end portion and extending longitudinally of the stay downwardly, and a similar clip spaced downwardly from the first clip and fixed to the stay and extendin'g upwardly along the stay, each clip coniprising a tongue disposed to lie flat against the stay or against the engaged surface of fabric interposed between the stay and clip,

an intermediate portion of the tongue of each clip being formed into an'eyelet 'receiving loop, and a pair f/similar clips relativelyosimilarly located on'the stay at the lower end portion thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix. my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CORNELIA L. BLAIR.

- Witnesses:

J. E. Gross, SALLIE 18mm.- 

